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Part 5: Applications, reviews and transitional arrangements

Regulation 10: Applications and reviews

10.1

You shall make an application under these regulations in the manner prescribed by us and accompanied by the appropriate fee fixed from time to time.

Guidance note

An application for higher rights of audience should be made via our website - www.sra.org.uk.

10.2

You shall not apply for a higher courts advocacy qualification until one of the requirements of regulation 4 has been met.

10.3

When applying for a higher courts advocacy qualification, you may within 28 days of receiving notification of our decision ask for the decision to be reviewed.

10.4

You may not apply to us for a review of a decision by an assessment provider where you have failed an assessment.

Guidance note

(i)

An application for higher rights of audience should be made via our website - www.sra.org.uk.

Regulation 11: Transitional arrangements

11.1

If, at the time the Solicitors' Higher Rights of Audience Regulations 2010 came into force you had undertaken in part the requirements specified in regulation 5 of the Higher Courts Qualification Regulations 2000 (the development route) and have not been granted the Higher Courts (All Proceedings) Qualification, you may either:

(a)

within 24 months of the coming into force of the Solicitors' Higher Rights of Audience Regulations 2010, complete the requirements set out in regulations 5(1)(a) and 5(1)(b) of the Higher Courts Qualification Regulations 2000, which will be treated as meeting the requirements of regulation 4 of these regulations, and may be granted both the Higher Courts (Civil Advocacy) Qualification and the Higher Courts (Criminal Advocacy) Qualification; or

(b)

apply for a higher courts advocacy qualification in accordance with these regulations.

11.2

If, at the time the Solicitors' Higher Rights of Audience Regulations 2010 came into force, you had applied to us under regulation 6 of the Higher Courts Qualification Regulations 2000 (the accreditation route) but have not been granted a higher courts advocacy qualification, you may either:

(a)

within 24 months of the coming into force of the Solicitors' Higher Rights of Audience Regulations 2010 regulations complete the requirements set out in regulations 4(1)(b) and 6 of the Higher Courts Qualification Regulations 2000, which will be treated as meeting the requirements of regulation 4 of these regulations, and may be granted one of or both the Higher Courts (Civil Advocacy) Qualification and the Higher Courts (Criminal Advocacy) Qualification; or

(b)

withdraw your application under the Higher Courts Qualification Regulations 2000 and apply for one of or both the Higher Courts (Civil Advocacy) Qualification and the Higher Courts (Criminal Advocacy) Qualification in accordance with these regulations.

11.3

We have the power to waive in writing any of the provisions of regulation 11 and to place conditions on and to revoke such waiver.